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Another calendar year has passed. Before heading too far into 2025, let’s look back at what happened in 2024 in the nuclear community. In today's post, compiled from Nuclear News and Nuclear Newswire are what we feel are the top nuclear news stories from July through September 2024.
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Nuclear Technology | Volume 87 | Number 1 | August 1989 | Pages 310-325
Technical Paper | TMI-2: Materials Behavior / Nuclear Safety | doi.org/10.13182/NT89-A27659
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Calculations with the STCP version of MARCH were performed as part of the Three Mile Island Unit 2 (TMI-2) Analysis Exercise. In the light of the present knowledge of what happened at TMI-2, a number of modeling enhancements were found necessary to interpret the accident. These enhancements and the results of calculations are described. The modified version of MARCH reproduced many of the key accident signatures, including the timing of core heatup, reasonable predictions of the core melt and cladding reaction fractions, the primary system pressure, and the hydrogen release to the containment, which eventually produced a burn at 10 h.